Literary notes about asserts (AI summary)
The term "asserts" is used to express a firm declaration or claim that imbues a statement with authority and clarity. In philosophical and psychological writings, it functions to state an unquestionable fact or a core belief, thereby grounding theories and arguments in certainty ([1], [2], [3]). In historical and logical works, the word helps structure narrative or deductive reasoning, marking propositions and evidential claims with precision ([4], [5], [6]). Meanwhile, in literary and narrative texts, "asserts" infuses characters or narrators with a bold voice that reinforces personal conviction or dramatic emphasis ([7], [8], [9]). Across these varied contexts, the term consistently signals a confident presentation of ideas, whether stating observable phenomena or constructing logical proofs ([10], [11], [12]).
- The ontological one asserts that every real thing is what it is, that a is a , and b, b .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - Suppose some one asserts of his lustful appetite that, when the desired object and the opportunity are present, it is quite irresistible.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant - Plato is desirous of deepening the notion of education, and therefore he asserts the paradox that there are no educators.
— from Meno by Plato - A Proposition of Relation, beginning with “All”, asserts (as we already know) that “ All Members of the Subject are Members of the Predicate”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - The first Premiss asserts that no x m exist: so we mark the x m -Compartment as empty, by placing a ‘O’ in each of its Cells.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - First, let us suppose that I “asserts” (i.e. “asserts the existence of its Subject”).
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - The patient asserts that he can think of nothing more.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - A god, nor is he less, my bosom warms, And tells me, Jove asserts the Trojan arms.
— from The Iliad by Homer - 'He might have died.' 'Yes, he might have died, but he is dry now, and asserts he has undergone transfiguration.'
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling - But Satyrus, in his Lives, asserts, that Empedocles was the son of Exænetus, and that he also left a son who was named [360] Exænetus.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius - All creatures, Pope asserts, are bound together and live not for themselves alone, but man is preeminently a social being.
— from The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems by Alexander Pope - This was on October 26th, at 10 A.M. Méneval asserts that Napoleon's subsequent bad temper was feigned.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
